Archival Full paper
8 pages including figures and tables (additional pages of cited references allowed); accepted papers are published in the WACV 2027 proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
Computer Vision/CORE Unranked
SIGNAL@WACV 2027
SIGNAL: Source-Integrated Generative-content Attribution and Labeling
SIGNAL @ WACV 2027 is the first workshop focused on source-integrated generative-content attribution and labeling, addressing watermarking, fingerprinting, and provenance benchmarks across diverse media carriers including visual, audio, model weights, and biological substrates. It emphasizes engineering solutions for permanent, recoverable source-side marking in response to regulatory mandates like the California AI Transparency Act, fostering cross-substrate research and honest evaluation.
Paper fit
Contribution paths
A strong submission should clearly identify its contribution and evaluate it appropriately.
Non-archival Short paper
4 pages including figures and tables (additional pages of cited references allowed); presented at the workshop and posted on the site, but not published in the proceedings; does not preclude later publication elsewhere.
Research areas in scope
01
Visual
Image and video watermarkingIn-generation marking for diffusion modelsRobustness to compression, cropping, regeneration, and screenshot re-capture
02
Audio and speech
Watermarking for TTS and voice cloningSurvival under codecs, re-recording, and time-stretching
03
Models and weights
Watermarking and fingerprinting neural networksIP attributionGenerator attribution from intrinsic artifactsRobustness to fine-tuning, distillation, and quantization
04
Biological substrates
Marking DNA sequences and engineered organismsEncoding under mutation, recombination, and sequencing noise
05
Adversarial
Watermark removalForgerySpoofingThe arms race as a first-class research object
06
Cross-substrate theory
Unified capacity, robustness, and imperceptibility formulationsTransferability of threat models or evaluation protocols across carriers
07
Systems and standards
C2PA and Content CredentialsInteroperabilityDeployment at platform scale
08
Benchmarks
Shared test suitesAttack batteriesReporting standards for robustness claims
Policies worth checking twice
- Submissions must be double-blind: remove author names, affiliations, and self-identifying references.
- Full papers must be original work not published or under review elsewhere.
- Short papers are non-archival and may be submitted elsewhere before, during, or after the workshop.
- Papers must use the WACV 2027 author kit and adhere to page limits (8 pages for full, 4 for short, excluding references).
- All authors must have an active OpenReview profile at submission time.
- At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the in-person workshop; remote presentations are not accommodated.
- Supplementary material is optional, self-contained, and capped at 200MB.
- Camera-ready papers must be submitted by November 20, 2026, to appear in the proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
Official sources
Compiled from the official call for papers. The organizers’ pages remain authoritative.
Last verified September 9, 2026